...Sen. Barack Obama is proposing a simple maneuver -- called an exchange, or swap -- that will help lower the price of oil for consumers, increase the amount of oil in the SPR, increase energy security, and leave taxpayers better off by about $1 billion. His proposal deserves to be adopted....
"Clean Energy in Ten Years."
There is a stack difference between the Republican Energy Plan under McCain and the Democratic Energy Plan with Barak Obama.
The Democratic Plan calls for converting to 'clean energy' while freeing ourselves from fossil fuels.
The Democratic Energy Plan calls for standards to meet those set in Senate Bill S.309. The Republican Plan doesn't even try to meet those standards and completely discards the importance of controlling greenhouse gases in their energy proposals.
John McCain is not endorsing Senate Bill S 309.
S. 309: Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act (click here)
1/16/2007--Introduced.
Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to set forth provisions concerning global warming pollution emissions. Directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) set milestones to reduce the aggregate net levels of emissions (authorizes EPA to establish market-based programs to achieve such reduction); (2) require each fleet of automobiles sold by a manufacturer beginning in model year 2016 to meet emission standards; (3) contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the potential contribution of the non-highway portion of the transportation sector towards meeting the emission reduction goal; (4) require that electric generation units meet an emission standard that is not higher than the emission rate of a new combined cycle natural gas generating unit; and (5) establish a low-carbon generation trading program...
